[rollei_list] Re: Rolleinar 3 poll
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:56:00 -0300
Mark:
Richard Avedon always used a view camera, almost from the
beginning for his commercial-professional work and Rolleiflexes for
his personal-artistic work, about 1969/70 he felt he was so
identified with the Rolleiflex that the subject was not a subject,
only someone within a camera that seemed to take its own decisions and
then he also started to use the view camera for his personal- artistic
work, to recover direct contact with the subject, he also used
Hasselblad and other cameras afterwards, but he never abandoned the
Rolleiflex, he no longer used it like before 1970, but he always used
it.
Richard Avedon also used a SLR camera beside the Rollei TLR if he
needed a long Tele objective for some works.
My point is the Rolleiflex TLR was and is a valuable photographic tool
for several professional and famous artistic photographers around the
world in spite of Mr. Adams opinion quoted by Eric.
Carlos
PS: Slobodan Dimitrov has some excellent portraits with Rolleinars 1 and 2.-
2010/3/6 Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Mark, I'd like know if I wrote that Avedon and Penn used Rollei TLR
>> cameras, BTW they used other cameras, but their more famous
>> photographs were taken with Rollei TLR and if you don't recall the
>> photographs I'll mention them for my next post.-
>>
>> Carlos
>
>
> I agree both are known for Rolleiflex use and a huge body of their work was
> Rolleiflex.
> Coincidently both in their latter years seemed to spurn all other cameras
> expect for the view camera. Sheet film.
> 8x10 that is.
> Avedon grabbed his Rolleiflexes to shoot the fall of the Iron curtain. That
> may have been the last time he touched one from all I can tell.
> Other than that past the age of 60 both these guys were shooting 8x10 with
> their many assistants feeding the camera and dealing with it. They seemed to
> have no more use for roll film.
> Coincidently both these guys are at the top of my list of favorite
> photographers.
> View cameras are an elegant way to make pictures.
> You wonder why all the fuss later to come up with all kinds of gadgets and
> gizmos. I guess the real problems came when they wanted to take it off the
> tripod.
>
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
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